Brush-holder.



PATENTED AUG. 4, 1908.

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BRUSH HOLDER. APBLIGATIONYHLBD 11.411,23, 190s.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. SOHULTZ, O-DONNYBBOOK, NORTH DAKOTA.

ismIsH-Horgnnra Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

Application led March 23, 1908. Serial No. 422,798.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. SCHULTZ, of Donnybrook, county of Ward, State of North Dakota, have invented certain Improvements in Brush-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is adapted to supply a convenient means whereby one or more brushes, such as scrub brushes, whitewash, calcimine or paint brushes etc. may be attached securely so that such brushes may be used on roofs, floors etc. without compelling the operator to stoop in his or her work or on high walls and ceilings without employing ladders and scaffoldings. v

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention and Fig. 2 is a plan view, in both the handle being shown broken away and a brush secured in the holder. j

In the drawings A represents a spider frame which is attached to a plate 2. i This plate has a pair of clamp jaws 3 which are adapted to engage the setting 4 of a brush B. Upon the plate are a air of movable clamp jaws 5 which engage t e. setting of the brush B and are oppositely disposed to the rigid The movable clamp jaws 5 are secured to the late 2 by means of headed studs 6 the shan s of which pass through slots 7 therein the latter permitting the clamp jaws 5 to move so as to engage or disengage the setting of any sized brush desired to be used. To the inner ends of the movable clamp jaws is secured a carrier bar 8 by means of pivots 9. consists of a pair of outer arms 10 and a single inner arm 11, said arms being suitably curved as shown and having their outer eX- tremities fastened to'the plate byrivets 12` and their inner ends seated in the end of a handle C. The carrier bar 8 is formed with a threaded head 13 in which an adjusting screw bolt 14 turns, the threads of said boltengaging the threads of saidl head. One end of this bolt is journaled in the arm 11 and is The spider frame A provided with a turning piece 15 by which a canbe adjusted andwith a collar 16 which prevents the bolt from moving longitudinally, the-turning piece 15 being on one side of the mmber 11 and the collar 16 on the other s1 e.

\ In practice the clamp jaws are secured to the setting of the brush by turning the bolt 14 until the jaws 3 and 5 impinge against and hold the setting securely in place. It is obvious that a holder of the construction set forth can be used with brushes having various shaped settings.

In accordance with the patent statutes I have described the principle of my invention together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof7 but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those set forth, within the scope of the fol- .lowing claim.

Having described my vinvention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent, isz- A device of the class set forth, comprising, in combination, a clampl plate having a pair of rigid jaws, a pair of movable jaws on said plate having slots, headed studs having their shanks passing through the slots in said movable jaws and secured to said plate, a carrier bar pivotally secured to said movable jaws, a frame secured to said plate, a handle on said frame, and an adjusting bolt revolubly supported by said frame and having a shank threaded in said carrier bar, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN B. SCI-IULTZ.

Witnesses:

BEN E. COMBs, FLOYD C. WHITE. 

